A film from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read. For more about I, Pencil, visit http://www.ipencilmovie.org

As Read explained in his classic essay, no single person on earth knows how to make a pencil. The pencil, like most modern wonders, is the end product of an intricate chain of human activity that spans the globe. There is no mastermind dictating the making of a pencil; not even the CEO of a pencil company could tell you exactly how to make one. It takes little bits of know-how of thousands of individuals—loggers in California, factory workers in China, miners in Sri Lanka, and everyone in between—to bring an ordinary wooden pencil into being. By sharing their skills and labor, these individuals each bring the pencil a step closer into being.

This is the miracle of One-Another. People who are strangers to each other—who might even hate each other if they ever met—are cooperating every day to produce goods that others want, need, and enjoy. One-Another compel men and women to voluntarily arrange themselves into efficient patterns of production through the pursuit of their individual interests. Without this constant spontaneous cooperation, the modern wonders of our world would not exist.

The only reason we have a job is to help others so the can help us. Use right technology enables as to riding our circle of One-Another's so we have even more people working for us. As this video shows One-Another is about an abundance economy not a scarcity economy. When we practice One-Another and specialize in an area, other do the same, and share our skill we can make life better for all and live like kings.